Letting Go

Together -
Time Gone By.
Smiles -
Laughter, sparkling eyes.

Time, like the wind,
changes it's surroundings.
Feelings once felt,
drifting apart.
Spaces between us grow.

She's taken your heart -
Captured your sould.

Love her-
Stay withher.
My heart will mend.

Gone

Walking out of pain --
into stress.
Tension, yelling,
HELL.
One I love,
loves me not.
Those who should love me --
Want me dead.

Falling deeper -
deeper into Shadowed Darkness.
Peace swarms around me like warm water
and I feel her comforting arms cradle me.

Someone loves you,
she whispers -
Closing my eyes
I see her beckoning hands and longing eyes.

All of my pain swims peacefully,
quietly away.
All of the tension -- relaxes

All is well now -
I am gone ... forever.

Shadows

Alone

in my somber room.

I welcomed you home 

to the depths of darkness. 

The wick on the candle

smoldered silently

As I felt you slip quietly

into the shadows. 

Once strangers to me - 

I was frightened, 

yet full of a tingling sense

of anticipation and adventure. 

There I was in a world

I thought was my own. 

Now to share it. 

Curiosity - 

Why had you come?

Quietly I whispered to you - 

Only the flame flickered 

and danced on melted wax. 

You visited --

We became friends.